Saturday, September 10, 2011

09/10/2011
From conversations between US
officials and leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, as culled
from the leaked WikiLeaks cables, the MILF apparently sees Noynoy as,
well, short of being a simpleton who is incapable of grasping the
problems of the peace process in Mindanao.

Michael Mastura, one of
the MILF peace panelists, was quoted as saying to the US official that
the Moro problem was “too complicated for Senator Aquino to understand.”
The MILF also appears to see Noy as a weakling around whom it can run circles.

There
are signs that the Moro rebels see him as such, as it is fact that they
succeeded in getting him, the president of a republic, to meet with the
MILF leaders for a secret meeting in Tokyo, where the MILF discussed
the establishment of a sub-state in Mindanao.

No head of
government or state meets an armed rebel group, secret or no, as that
would provide the rebels with a belligerency status. And in the case of
Noynoy, it was even worse, since he brought along with him his Cabinet
secretaries — including his Budget secretary, which would have something
to do with funding the MILF. Already, an initial P5 million was
released — and that’s just for sweetening starters..... MORE